Mooncake - Blog Posts
I think Cosmo x Astro should be called cosmic brownie
I traced over a traditional drawing and made it digital hope y’all like it!!!
Happy Autumn Festival! 中秋節快樂
I HATEEE when people say "sweet dreams makes no sense!!!!"
SHUT UP YES IT DOES BRO cosmo- THIS GUYS SO OBVIOUSLY LOVES STARS AND SPACE. fake fans don't know that cosmos hobby is stargazing1!!!!!/lh HE LITERALLY HAS STAR FRECKLES. HIS NAME. COSMO?? LIKE COSMIC??? LIKE SPACE???? astro- in sprout's dialogue, even though Astro wasn't trying to steal sweets its IMPLIED (omg yes!! you have to use your critical thinking skills for once.) that he would and probably has tried to snag a few extra snacks- though of course this depends on your perspective, and this is mine. SO yes we already have the indication that they like each other in a more basic sense. Astro likes sweets, Cosmo likes space. But then you also can have more dynamics! Ex. Sun and Moon but they aren't total opposites. Both introverts, so they have that similarity but Cosmo is more nervous(he still tries to be social and I see it as him caring for the toons) and self sacrificial (he literally uses his own FLESH to heal the toons.) Astro is obviously introverted but a common misconception about him that I HATE HATE HATEEEEE is that he's "shy" and "soft HE'S NOT SHY, NOT SOFT, AND HE'S NOT SOME UWU FEMBOY. HE'S LITERALLY JUST ANTI-SOCIAL. Yes, he's ANTI-SOCIAL. Not shy. He doesn't seem to be nervous on the machines like Cosmo is, he doesn't really care at all. Astro would be like a grounding force to Cosmo when he gets too stressed and overthinking, he wouldn't understand Cosmo's sacrificial nature and him doing so much for the other toons (not to say Astro wouldn't also lend a helping hand. Cosmo, the little ball of sunshine he is, would try to get Astro come out of his shell. Of course, the moon being the stand-offish guy he is, probably wouldn't be very open to talking at first (their dialogue.) UNTILLLLL he realizes that they have their love for astronomy in common! Astro shows a preference for people that are similar to him or have something in common with him (ie. Razzle & Dazzle, Brightney, Dandy and the mains.) And Cosmo's caring, social, vibrant personality wouldn't be a problem for him, his best friend is Dandy. Speaking of best friends... I can imagine a conversation between them, talking about their friends and how overshadowed they feel. Cosmo Is definitely a lot more uh... overshadowed- again, for lack of another word.- than him but I still feel like for Astro it might be a little uncomfortable to constantly be associated with Dandy like he's just "Dandy's best friend." Doing everything together with the star of the show might show problems. Of course I have a LOT more hcs for these two but Im gonna stop here at the more 'cannon' ones.
More Sweet Dreams art!!!
man.... i've posted a lot, huh?
More Sweet Dreams art i forgot to upload... oops!!
Second one i really really hate how it turned out but might as well share it anyways... content is content
(Late) Sweet Dreams Christmas!!
+ a little explanation as to HOW cosmo ended up in the gift box hehe
Sweet Dreams 🥮💖
god i love them sm. find my mooncake content on tiktok @tcfryn 😋
i finally found tumblr and its mooncake art.. will upload some of my own
My Final Space S3 poster for the Twitter event 💫
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SO hyped for S3! 🚀💫
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Types of mooncakes
Right now(is festival for chinese singaporeans) is the mid-autumn festival. According to the ancient Chinese legend, the story of Chang Er, the wife of a merciless king who downed the elixir of immortality he had intended to drink, to save her people from his tyrannical rule.The tale goes that she ascended to the moon after that, and has been worshipped by the Chinese as a Moon Goddess ever since.
Making and sharing mooncakes is one of the hallmark traditions of this festival. In singapore, we have main five different chinese dialect group(hokkien,teochew,hakka,cantonese,hainanese) so of course, there are five different types of mooncakes.
CANTONESE MOOKCAKE
This is the most common style of mooncakes sold by bakeries and hotels. The round pastry, which is about 10cm in diameter and about 4cm thick, comes from south China’s Guangdong province and is also eaten in Hong Kong and Macau. The traditional mooncake is filled with lotus seed or red bean paste with egg yolks inside.
However, there are the modern snowskin mooncakes which contains anything from durian to champagne. (below are champagne mooncakes)
HOKKIEN MOONCAKE
They were known as Scholar Cakes in the past and given to those taking the Imperial Examination to fill junior and senior administrative positions in the Imperial Court. The filling usually comprises winter melon, tangerine peel and melon seeds. Sesame seeds are sprinkled on the white pastry to make it fragrant.
HAINANESE MOONCAKE
Hainanese ones are filled with dried fruit such as tangerine peel as well as sesame seeds and melon seeds. It has two verision with a salty and pepper version. The.The slightly flaky skin is made with pork lard and salt. According to a blog, they are actually only found in singapore as the story goes that the hainanese community in singapore was very poor and could not afford the normal mooncakes sold so they made their own type of mooncake.
TEOCHEW MOONCAKE
Yam-filled mooncakes with a flaky crust are the most common Teochew mooncakes sold in Singapore. Another type is la gao, which is a steamed black sesame cake. It comes plain or with green bean paste or yam filling. There is also another type of Teochew mooncake, a white disc that looks like a big biscuit and is filled with tangerine peel and sugar, flavoured with five-spice powder and topped with sesame seeds.
HAKKA MOONCAKE
This is actually uncommon and almost unheard of in singapore but moon cakes in Hakka regions of china, apart from common moon cakes, have “five-kernel moon cakes” and a kind of round cake made with glutinous rice flour and sugar, compressed into different size. (I can’t find an exact picture of the hakka mooncake so)
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